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ELEUSIS. 15
PLATE IX
PLAN OF THE CEILING.
The beams of the ceiling are supported by the epistylia of the inner ranges of columns, and by
the flank walls of the building. The length of the beams over the side aisles were nearly twenty-
three feet, they were three feet in width, and two feet and a half in depth: each weighed about
eleven tons. The intervening pannels were formed out of slabs four feet in length, sixteen inches
in width, and nine in depth. Each slab comprised two pannels, excepting next the door-ways
where the pannels were formed in separate pieces.
PLATE X.
DETAILS OF THE CEILING.
Fig. I. A division of the lacunaria belonging to the south portico.
A. The part of the slabs resting upon the beams, which was not polished.
II. Section through the pannels of the lacunaria.
IV. A division of the lacunaria belonging to the north portico.
V. The lacunaria in single pannels, adjoining the division wall of the building; the pannels
were parallelograms.
VI. The star-like figure upon the ground, and the ornaments painted upon the moldings of the
pannels. On some of the fragments the green colour retained a great degree of
freshness.
PLATE XI.
LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH THE CENTRE OF THE BUILDING.
The Ionic columns are 3.4.6 in diameter, and must have been 32.6 in height, if the columns
of the porticoes were equally high with those of the Propyl^a at Athens. The bases are formed
out of square blocks, which go through the marble pavement, and are bedded upon the foundation
of soft stone, constructed over the whole of the area occupied by the building.
The height of the door-way, in the section of the transverse wall, is given from conjecture.
The epistylia of the Ionic columns are single stones, meeting in a joint over the centre of every
PLATE IX
PLAN OF THE CEILING.
The beams of the ceiling are supported by the epistylia of the inner ranges of columns, and by
the flank walls of the building. The length of the beams over the side aisles were nearly twenty-
three feet, they were three feet in width, and two feet and a half in depth: each weighed about
eleven tons. The intervening pannels were formed out of slabs four feet in length, sixteen inches
in width, and nine in depth. Each slab comprised two pannels, excepting next the door-ways
where the pannels were formed in separate pieces.
PLATE X.
DETAILS OF THE CEILING.
Fig. I. A division of the lacunaria belonging to the south portico.
A. The part of the slabs resting upon the beams, which was not polished.
II. Section through the pannels of the lacunaria.
IV. A division of the lacunaria belonging to the north portico.
V. The lacunaria in single pannels, adjoining the division wall of the building; the pannels
were parallelograms.
VI. The star-like figure upon the ground, and the ornaments painted upon the moldings of the
pannels. On some of the fragments the green colour retained a great degree of
freshness.
PLATE XI.
LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH THE CENTRE OF THE BUILDING.
The Ionic columns are 3.4.6 in diameter, and must have been 32.6 in height, if the columns
of the porticoes were equally high with those of the Propyl^a at Athens. The bases are formed
out of square blocks, which go through the marble pavement, and are bedded upon the foundation
of soft stone, constructed over the whole of the area occupied by the building.
The height of the door-way, in the section of the transverse wall, is given from conjecture.
The epistylia of the Ionic columns are single stones, meeting in a joint over the centre of every